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Ron Reid

Ron Reid is a steel drummer, bassist and Associate Professor of Contemporary Writing and Production at Berklee College of Music, where he teaches arranging, music history, ensemble and steelpan performance. He began his professional career in 1978 as a bassist for the late Lord Kitchener’s Calypso Revue in Port-of-Spain, Trinidad and has recorded and performed with a cavalcade of major calypso and soca artists including the Mighty Shadow, Sparrow, Superior, Relator, David Rudder, Ella Andall and Andre Tanker. Ron has recorded with Boston-based groups Myanna and Sonabo, and gifted saxophonist Grace Kelly, among many others

Latin Jazz Sessions

By Ron Rieder

Label: Self Produced
Released: 2024
Track listing: Un Coco Loco; The Samba Moon; Mambo Jumbo; Samba Feliz; St John; Spring Serenade; Pescado; Gardenias; From Dawn to Dusk; Capitol Mayhem.

Ron Rieder: Latin Jazz Sessions

by Jack Bowers
May 13, 2024

Even while pursuing a long and successful career in the physical sciences, Bostonian Ron Rieder never abandoned his life-long love for jazz, especially the tantalizing melodies and lively rhythms of Latin America, composing music at every opportunity before returning to writing full-time and at long last recording his debut album, Latin Jazz Sessions It ...

Theron Shaw: Gumbo Caribe

by Nigel Campbell
September 22, 2014

Theron Shaw is well known in local music circles as the go-to man for guitar support ranging from jazz to calypso. His two previous releases signalled a willingness to engage with native cultural mores and tackle Caribbean Jazz not only as a way to “tropicalise" harmonically complex original music, but as a way to validate and ...